Will's review
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics) by Álvaro Mutis
Hookers and Hoes, Monkies and fools, this here peach colored book, written by a poet that sold out, that worked for MGM, a poet that was more than 70 at the start and who should be dead by now if only because it's too damn torturous to know he's probably too senile to write and one-- meaning, I might kill him myself-- because there's no waiting for another. Albeit, there are seven novellas, but all totaled they're bigger than some books that are too long already, but to short for a book this good.
I've read this a couple of times. This was, when I read it, the book I hailed as the essential adventure, the cusp of life, the type I'll read about. My god, just read it. Just read the first fucking novella and you'll probably start by saying it's like Heart of Darkness, and end by saying it's like Nabokov found Mellville and chased him through the Amazon Rainforest. It's just a good goddamned book, and read the other reviews about it.
Why did I give it a four when there ain't ano...more
I've read this a couple of times. This was, when I read it, the book I hailed as the essential adventure, the cusp of life, the type I'll read about. My god, just read it. Just read the first fucking novella and you'll probably start by saying it's like Heart of Darkness, and end by saying it's like Nabokov found Mellville and chased him through the Amazon Rainforest. It's just a good goddamned book, and read the other reviews about it.
Why did I give it a four when there ain't ano...more
